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My g-g-granda, HUGH MONAGHAN, emigrated from Donegal to the US aboard the ship 'Clare' during 'An Gorta Mor', the Great Hunger. He arrived on June 6, 1849 in NYC only 19 years old and illiterate. Hugh's parents were William Monaghan of Templecarn, Croagh, Tirhugh, Donegal, Ireland and Mary Gallagher of Shekinatawy, Donegal, Ireland. After arriving in America, Hugh lived with relatives on Columbus Avenue in NYC for a few years before moving to Portland, Maine where most of the family still resides. Many of our relatives also reside in and near Charlestown, Massachusetts. Hugh married another emigrant from the starvation, Margaret McGuirk and had three sons: William Hugh, Thomas and John.
William Hugh Monahan married Margaret DUNN. (Margaret's mother: Mary Maguire of Ireland - Mary's father was Bernard Maguire and her mother was Bridget Kerwin); (Margaret's father: John Dunn born in Canada). The Dunn family emigrated to the US in 1870 to Charlestown, MA. After John Dunn's death, her mother, Mary, married an O'Neill; therefore, her full name at death was Mary Maguire Dunn O'Neill.) Their daughter was my grandmother: Grace Elizabeth Monaghan.
My full lineage and lots of great Monaghan resources can be found at
http://www.geocities.com/monaghan49/index.html
which is the home of The Monaghan Clan</A> All Monaghan/Monahan descendants are welcome to add their ancestral information, free of charge.
Additional surnames in my lineage are: Maguire, Dunn, Kerwin, Mullany, McGuirk, McLoone, McDevitt, Joyce and Carey.
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